The Digital Fix: Film

This Week's UK Cinema Releases

With summer about to depart, the releases stay mostly small and Kingsman: The Golden Circle stands head and shoulders above anything else as the week's biggest release. A whole raft of stars have hopped on board for the sequel and it should do well at the box office with a mid-week release but we'll see how it fares critic wise in the next few days. Skarsgård and LaBeouf come out swinging in Borg Vs McEnroe and Berlinale Golden Bear winner, On Body And Soul, gets a UK release. Restored in glorious 4k to celebrate its 50th Anniversary, David Lean's epic, Lawrence of Arabia, will play at select cinemas around the country. There is also quite an eclectic range of films arriving from across the world: Almost Heaven (China), In The Last Days Of The City (Egypt), In Between (Palestine), Our Last Tango (Argentina) and Tramontane (Lebanon).

Almost Heaven

Director: Carol Salter

Far from home, afraid of the dark, and terrified of ghosts, young Ying Ling trains to become a mortician in one of China's largest funeral homes.

Khalid, a 35 year old filmmaker is struggling to make a film that captures the soul of his city while facing loss in his own life. With the help of his friends, who send him footage from their lives in Beirut, Baghdad and Berlin, he finds the strength to keep going through the difficulty and beauty of living.

When their headquarters are destroyed and the world is held hostage, the Kingsman's journey leads them to the discovery of an allied spy organization in the US. These two elite secret organizations must band together to defeat a common enemy.

The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks. Restored in 4k for its 50th anniversary re-release.

Rabih, a young blind man, lives in a small village in Lebanon. His life unravels when he tries to apply for a passport and discovers that his identification card, is a forgery. Traveling across rural Lebanon in search of a record of his own birth, he meets people on the far fringes of society who tell their own stories.

Last updated: 18/09/2017 12:31:04

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